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Yeah, no shit.
A presidents minions breaking into a hotel room vs a half century of child sex abuse coordinated by Americas strategic enemies among a cabal of the most rich and powerful men in the US with the currently sitting president in the middle of it.
What is wrong with these people?
It is bigger than Watergate.
Much much much bigger?
Incomparably bigger.
The bald fellow, Joe Borelli (the Republican minority leader of the New York City Council), was being a shitty panel guest by gish-galloping, making unsubstantiated claims and not responding to questions.
People should be called out when they do this for using non-logical debate tactics. But CNN won't, because this is peddling mental junk food, not news.
I was listing to You Are Not So Smart the other day and McRaney did an episode on an argument mapping game, Point Taken, that you can use to calmly and collaboratively debate with people of differing opinions such that everyone comes away learning more. You can play it online, too: https://pointtaken.social/
What I wouldn't give to see politicians play this game instead of verbally debate and trade talking points.
Players engage with care, stick to facts, and build their arguments with logic, not volume.
See, that goes totally against what and why they do what they do. Facts and logic aren't going to help their case at all, and they know it.
Brawl is not the right word to use unless these guys literally started beating the shit out of each other live on air.
Spar would be more appropriate
Would love to see Adam mockler start throwing hands